{"id":28469,"date":"2012-01-25T17:45:03","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T21:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28469"},"modified":"2012-01-25T18:10:32","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T22:10:32","slug":"us-plunges-in-press-freedom-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28469","title":{"rendered":"US plunges in “Press Freedom Index”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I guess you probably won’t read this in too many places, which is why I’m writing about it. In George Bush’s last year, 2008<\/a>, Reporters Without Borders ranked the US in 36th place in terms of the freedom of our media in relation to the other nations. Somehow, RWB credited the fact that we were at war in two countries with that lack of freedom – without really explaining how the wars affected our First Amendment right.<\/p>\n

Them in 2009<\/a> and 2010<\/a> we shot up to 20th place. RWB explains that was because of the “Obama Effect” whatever the f^ck that is. So they report today that we’ve fallen to 47th place. RWB says;<\/p>\n

The United States (47th) also owed its fall of 27 places to the many arrests of journalist covering Occupy Wall Street protests.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Many? How many? And why didn’t they factor in the “Obama Effect”? Or has it become the “Obama Reverse Effect”, now? So we’re tied with Argentina and Romania, another way we’ve squeezed our way into the 3rd world rankings in the past few years. All this despite the fact that we’re only in one war compared to the two wars we were in 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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